Psychological & Psychiatric Anthropology

Psychological and psychiatric anthropology are two fields concerned with a number of issues around the interaction of social structure, cultural processes, and human psyches. Related fields include cultural and social psychology, cross-cultural or transcultural psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology, the old “Culture and Personality” studies in
anthropology and the related literature on “national character” in sociology and political science, as well as aspects of medical anthropology and sociology. This page draws together various resources for researchers in these areas.

William T. Grant Foundation - focuses on improving the lives of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States, mainly by providing grants primarily for high-quality empirical studies.

Postdoctoral Programs

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
Each year the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science in Princeton, New Jersey, invites fifteen to twenty scholars to spend an academic year in residence as Visiting Members, pursuing their own research. It welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology,sociology, and anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with an historical and humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature, and linguistics.

Language and Ethnographic Resources

Docuseek: the combined collections of four leading distributors of independent documentary film & video, representing over 3,200 titles, are now searchable.

Indigenous Peoples: a library of over 500 documents relating to indigenous peoples throughout the world, including Native American tribes, the Maori, Australian Aborigines, the Sami, and others. Hosted by the New Zealand Digital Library project.

Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology

Evolutionary Psychology: "The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind. It is not an area of study, like vision, reasoning, or social behavior. It is a way of thinking about psychology that can be applied to any topic within it. In this view, the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. This way of thinking about the brain, mind, and behavior is changing how scientists approach old topics, and opening up new ones."

The Stephen Jay Gould Archive: Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the late 20th century. A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokesperson for evolutionary theory. His monthly columns in Natural History
magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards and one of the largest readerships in the popular-science genre, penning over twenty successful books throughout his career.

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